processes? The present paper addresses this question in a new macroeconomic model of automation where competitive firms perform … and substitute for labor in the performance of tasks. Automation is labor-augmenting in the reduced-form aggregate … though the aggregate production function is Cobb-Douglas. Population aging due to a higher longevity reduces automation in …

automation potential is low. Economic aging also impedes the creation of innovation at the technological frontier …

We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European countries, between 1993 and … ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …-sample employment patterns in the region of residence. We instrument robot adoption in each country using the pace of robot adoption in …

processes? The present paper addresses this question in a new macroeconomic model of automation where competitive firms perform … and substitute for labor in the performance of tasks. Automation is labor-augmenting in the reduced-form aggregate … though the aggregate production function is Cobb-Douglas. Population aging due to a higher longevity reduces automation in …

change or globalization, but also by the dynamics of factor taxation, automation capital (robots), and population growth … shares and in automation capital. Second, we analyse and calibrate a neoclassical growth model extended to include factor … taxation, automation capital, and capital adjustment costs. Labor and automation capital are perfect substitutes whereas labor …

Prettner (2019) studies the implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share in a variant of the … Solow-Swan model. The aggregate production function allows for two types of capital, traditional and automation capital …. Traditional capital and labor are imperfect substitutes whereas automation capital and labor are perfect substitutes. In this …

supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference …-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0 …